Harry Reid Quotes (278 Quotes)

If the rights of the minority are to be preserved, if the Senate is to be preserved as the greatest of parliamentary bodies, it would take at least six Republicans standing up for fairness and checks and balances,

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

Second, the Bush administration must advise the Iraqi people that United States military forces will not stay indefinitely in Iraq and that it is their responsibility to achieve the broad-based and sustainable political environment essential for defeating the insurgency.

The vice president and this administration have a credibility problem, ... Rather than giving our troops a plan to move forward in Iraq and changing their failed course, they continue to ignore the facts and lash out at those who raise legitimate questions about how the administration misused intelligence in its rush to war.

yet another missed opportunity by the vice president to come clean with the American people and lay out a strategy for success in Iraq.

I demand on behalf of the American people that we understand why these investigations aren't being conducted, ... and in accordance with Rule 21, I now move that the Senate go into closed session.

our national security policy-making process.

I think it will be a very close vote. This is going to be a hard day.

I think it's time the American people heard from the vice president.

I join my Democratic colleagues in demanding that these oil executives be brought back to Congress, sworn in and forced to testify again.

To me it shows how dangerously incompetent he is. 'Stay the course, mission accomplished, bring 'em on,' the American people are sick of that. We need to change course in Iraq. ... I think the president burying his head in the sand is not going to do the trick.

No one suggests that John Roberts was motivated by bigotry or animosity toward minorities or women, ... But these memos lead one to question whether he truly appreciated the history of the civil rights struggle. He wrote about discrimination as an abstract concept, not as a flesh and blood reality for countless of his fellow citizens.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

will bring hope to millions of Americans.

Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on the border will continue to be chaotic.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

He was blackballed because he couldn't live up to the standards of the right wing, ... I'm sure his dad (former President Bush) gave him a pat on the back, but it's a back pat he's going to regret.

While the Bush administration continues to stonewall the Congress from finding the truth about the manipulation of prewar intelligence, Democrats will continue to press for a full airing of the facts.

The United States Senate said the policy must change staying the course will not do, ... It was a vote of no confidence on the president's policies in Iraq.

asserts this administration engaged in actions that both harmed our national security and are morally repugnant.

After what we all have witnessed the past week or so, is there anyone in America who feels we should continue to rely exclusively on FEMA to head the federal government's response to this tragedy

The president has made his choice, ... Now the Senate will do its job of deciding whether to confirm John Roberts to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court.

I've been going to the gym for 24 years, and I've never been lobbied in the gym. Of course I'm pretty ugly naked.

It's going to take some Republicans of good will to be courageous and break from their leadership. They're getting tremendous pressure, and I understand that. But we feel good.

The nation is already reeling from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and the Senate should focus its immediate attention on helping the victims of that tragedy. The death of Chief Justice Rehnquist presents an additional reason to adjust the schedule.

led the federal judiciary with great dignity and clarity ... Through it all, he displayed honor and conviction, a love of the law and a love for his country.

give something back to every American.

I'm not a big Greenspan fan-Alan Greenspan fan. I voted against him the last two times. I think he's one of the biggest political hacks we have in Washington.

President Bush continues to believe he's above the law and above the Constitution ... that the unitary executive president can pick and choose which laws he will follow.

After creating record deficits and debt with his budget busting tax breaks, the president is asking our seniors, our students, and our families to clean up his fiscal mess with painful cuts in health care and student aid.

Finally, after months and months and months of begging, cajoling, writing letters, we're finally going to be able to have phase two of the investigation regarding how the intelligence was used to lead us into the intractable war in Iraq,

As bright and brilliant and as good a lawyer as Judge Roberts was, I asked him - he'd never taken a deposition, he'd never picked a jury, never tried a case, ... He never tried a case. She has. We need people like that who have real-life experiences.

We focused attention on what some believe are the flaws in the process leading to Senate consideration of the bill and the flaws of the bill itself.

The American people and our brave troops deserve better than a photo-op for the president and a pep-rally about Iraq. They deserve a plan. Unfortunately, today's event only served to highlight the fact that the president refuses to engage in a frank conversation about the realities on the ground,

You can only go to the well so many times.

What has been the response of this Republican-controlled Congress to the administration's manipulation of intelligence that led to this protracted war in Iraq Basically nothing,

I'm appealing to my colleagues in the majority, don't do this. Postpone this effort,

I urge the White House to reconsider this initial decision, and to work cooperatively with Judiciary Committee Democrats so that the Senate can do its job more effectively,

Staying the course is not an option, ... President Bush has failed to provide either a strategy for success or a convincing record of political and military progress.

Until the president and the Republican leadership agree that their misguided attempt to privatize Social Security is over and they will no longer pursue their previously announced bait-and-switch strategy, Democrats will continue to refuse to enter negotiations over Social Security,

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

Any one of your cities and towns could be the next New Orleans. The federal government owes it to you and your citizens to be prepared the next time disaster strikes.

It's like running up your credit card bills today because a fortune-teller predicted you'd be rich in 10 years. When the bill comes due, you can't pay with a prediction.

I think Karl Rove should step down. Here is a man who the president said if he was involved, if anyone in the administration was involved, out they would go.

The president is 0-3 in his last three speeches. In order to support the mission, the American people need to know the remaining military and political benchmarks.

It's very clear that it's America's number one issue today.

I don't know whether Bolton's going to make it or not. But people shouldn't be up in arms now. This is a process we need to have,

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

In his State of the Union next week, the president needs to come clean and join Democrats in offering a real solution to this disastrous program.

Over the last five years, Democrats have watched with the American people as President Bush and Republicans have moved America in the wrong direction. We've seen their dangerous incompetence.